Gain insight into the auction performance of Lear Edward . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the artwork ...

In her extraordinary new book “Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense,” Jenny Uglow—the award-winning biographer of Charles II, Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth—writes: “Birds gave ...

Edward Lear (1812-1888) was eighteen when he started work on the illustrations for The Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots. As an ornithological draughtsman, with a talent for striking colors and ...

Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Edward Lear's writing and discovers how this epileptic, asthmatic depressive pioneered a new kind of poetry. Show more ...

It was not the sort of phame that Edward Lear was after. A shy, pear-shaped six-footer with a bulging nose and “a beard that resembles a wig,” he was a melancholy bachelor who could “blubber ...

Edward Lear and the Scientists, running at the Royal Society Library from 29 August to 26 September, will present some of Lear's gorgeous scientific illustrations of animals ranging from toucans ...

EDWARD LEAR has waited fifty-one years for his biographer. In that half century his renown as a writer of nonsense verse, and to a lesser degree as a comic artist, has carried his name throughout ...

Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Admittedly, Lear (1812-1888) lacks the universal appeal of his contemporary Lewis Carroll, but his longer poems — such as “The ...